Build your first phone agent in 5 minutes
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Deploy your first phone agent in 5 minutes.
Retell is a platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring reliable AI phone agents that can handle natural conversations over the phone.
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Create Your Account
Visit the
Sign up for a new account
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Create a New Agent
Navigate to the “Agents” tab
Click “Create an agent”
Choose a template
If you are not sure which template to choose, we recommend starting with “Lead qualification” in “Multi Prompt” category.
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Test Your Agent
Click the “Test” button to test your agent
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Add your payment method
Before buying a phone number, you need to add a payment method to your account
Go to the “Billing” tab and click “Change payment methods”
Deploy to a Phone Number
Go to the “Phone Numbers” tab
Click “Buy New Number”
(Optional) Enter the area code you want to buy the number for
Purchase your number
Assign your agent to the number in the configuration settings
Test Your Phone Agent
Incoming Calls:
Dial your purchased number
Outbound Calls:
Click “Make an outbound call”
Enter the phone number including the country code (e.g., +12137774445
)
🎉 Congratulations! Your agent is now live and can:
Receive incoming calls
Make outbound calls
Handle natural conversations
Process requests 24/7
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